manikkedi
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I have questions about Over+period. As far as I know, we use present perfect tense with over+period. But in these 2 examples, the correct answer is given with past simple tense. Can anyone pls explain it to me? Thanx
1- At the Brussels meeting over the last
weekend Madeleine Albright, The American
secretary of State, ____ her allies that
future NATO missions ____ them further a
field, but not all over the world.
A) assures / is taking
B) has assured / will have taken
C) assured / would take
D) had assured / took
E) was assuring / will take
2- Over the past two decades, the Corsicans
____ their idyllic island, which was wrested
by France from the Genoese in 1768, ____
into terrorism, corruption and economic
decline
A) have seen / sink
B) had seen / sank
C) saw / to sink
D) would have seen / had sunk
E) would see / had been sinkin
1- At the Brussels meeting over the last
weekend Madeleine Albright, The American
secretary of State, ____ her allies that
future NATO missions ____ them further a
field, but not all over the world.
A) assures / is taking
B) has assured / will have taken
C) assured / would take
D) had assured / took
E) was assuring / will take
2- Over the past two decades, the Corsicans
____ their idyllic island, which was wrested
by France from the Genoese in 1768, ____
into terrorism, corruption and economic
decline
A) have seen / sink
B) had seen / sank
C) saw / to sink
D) would have seen / had sunk
E) would see / had been sinkin